Alex Gray surfs a lot of good waves. He’s a tube hunter par excellence, a barrel searching maniac, a purveyor of stoke. He’s a lot of things, really. Like everyone else, he likes his waves a certain way: empty and perfect. But because he’s Alex Gray, and he’s truly earned his way, so to speak, when someone tells him about one, he’s able to drop everything and go.

So when someone hit him up on Instagram and told him about a wave that ticked both the empty and the perfect boxes, he waited until the next good swell, hopped on a plane, then a boat, then a taxi… and scored SO HARD. In a world full of crowded waves and mediocre waves, it’s a wonderful thing to see.